Author: gil7

Historical Events

1751 – Thomas Colley is executed in England for drowning a supposed witch
1858 – Richmond “Daily Dispatch” reports 90 Black individuals arrested for learning
1912 – District of Alaska becomes an organized incorporated territory of the United States
1997 – 97th US Amateur Golf Championship won by Joel Kribel
2019 – Britain’s Prince Andrew denies knowing his friend Jeffrey Epstein was involved in sexual trafficking of underage girls after public accusations made against him

More Historical Events »

Famous Birthdays

1890 – Franz Philipp, German composer, born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany (d. 1972)
1890 – Jean Rhys [Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams], British writer (Voyage in the Dark), born in Roseau, Dominica (d. 1979)
1951 – Oscar Hijuelos, American novelist (The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love), born in New York City (d. 2013)
1977 – Jürgen Macho, Austrian footballer, born in Vienna, Austria
1986 – Arian Foster, American football running back (First-team All-Pro 2010, 12; 4 × Pro Bowl; NFL rushing TD leader 2010, 12; Houston Texans, Miami Dolphins), born in Albuquerque, New Mexico

More Famous Birthdays »

Famous Deaths

1540 – Parmigianino [Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola,], Italian painter (Madonna of the Long Neck), dies at 37
1982 – Jack Siedle, South African cricketer (batted in 18 Tests for South Africa), dies at 79
1987 – Malcolm Kirk “King Kong Kirk”, English professional wrestler, dies of a heart attack in the ring at 51
1996 – Robert Tewdwr Moss, English journalist and travel writer, found dead at 34
2020 – Pascal Lissouba, Congo politician, 1st democratically-elected President of the Republic of the Congo (1992-97), dies at 88

More Famous Deaths »

Historical Events

1938 – England scores 7-903 declared against Australia, with Len Hutton scoring 364
1957 – US performs a nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site
1982 – USSR performs a nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
2004 – Winning pitcher Lisa Fernandez (4-0) leads the US to the softball gold medal at the Athens Olympics, beating Australia 5-1
2017 – India’s toll from swine flu rises above 1,000 for the year, with 22,186 cases reported

More Historical Events »

Famous Birthdays

1754 – Louis XVI, King of France (1774-93) eventually guillotined, born in Versailles, Yvelines, France (d. 1793)
1917 – Tex Williams, American country-western singer, born in Ramsey, Illinois (d. 1985)
1949 – Shelley Long, American actress (Diane in Cheers, Money Pit), born in Fort Wayne, Indiana
1954 – Halimah Yacob, Singaporean politician (1st female President of Singapore (2017-), born in Singapore
1964 – Kong Hee, Singaporean founder and Senior Pastor of the City Harvest movement in Asia, born in Singapore

More Famous Birthdays »

Famous Deaths

1927 – Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, executed in Massachusetts
1957 – Eugène Schueller, French chemist, founder of L’Oréal, dies at 76
1989 – Yusef Hawkins, shot by 30 whites in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn NY in a racially motivated attack
2006 – Jacques Wildberger, Swiss composer (In My End is My Beginning), dies at 84
2015 – Jean Darling, American child actress (Our Gang), dies at 93

More Famous Deaths »

Historical Events

1827 – José de La Mar becomes President of Peru
1914 – Battle of Charleroi begins as General von Bülow’s troops defeat the French
1943 – Soviet troops free Kharkov
1968 – Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota for the first papal visit to Latin America to open a Eucharistic Congress
2008 – Russia wins the women’s 4 × 100 m relay ahead of Belgium and Nigeria at the Beijing Olympics; disqualified in 2016 when reanalysis of Yulia Chermoshanskaya’s samples result in positive test for prohibited substances

More Historical Events »

Famous Birthdays

1888 – Du Yuesheng, Chinese mob boss, born in Gaoqiao, Shanghai (d. 1951)
1888 – Violet Farebrother, English actress (Downhill, Easy Virtue), born in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England (d. 1969)
1928 – Tinga Seisay, Sierra Leonean diplomat and pro-democracy advocate, born in Moyamba, Sierra Leone (d. 2015)
1955 – Chiranjeevi [Konidela Siva Sankara Vara Prasad], Telugu film actor, dancer and producer, born in Mogalthur, India
1973 – Kristen Wiig, American comedian and actress (Bridesmaids, Ghostbusters), born in Canandaigua, New York

More Famous Birthdays »

Famous Deaths

1831 – John White, English organist and violinist, dies at 52
1993 – Don Getz, American filmmaker (Playpoint), dies at 50
2003 – Generosa Ammon, American widow of Ted Ammon (b. 1956)
2004 – Daniel Petrie, Canadian television and movie director, dies at 83
2009 – Elmer Kelton, American Western novelist (b. 1926)

More Famous Deaths »

Historical Events

1912 – Francis Carter-Cotton is chosen as the first chancellor of the University of British Columbia
1929 – Chicago Cardinals become the first professional football team to train out of town
1963 – Jerry Lynch’s record 15th pinch-hit home run gives Pirates a 7-6 victory
1985 – American Mary Decker Slaney runs a mile in a world record time of 4:16.71 in Zurich, Switzerland; it is the third time she holds the record
1991 – Latvia declares its independence from USSR

More Historical Events »

Famous Birthdays

1789 – Augustin-Louis Cauchy, French mathematician and physicist, born in Paris (d. 1857)
1932 – Melvin Van Peebles, American stage and screen actor, director (Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song; Sophisticated Gent), composer, and novelist, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2021)
1941 – Tom Coster, American rock and jazz keyboard player and accordionist (Santana; Billy Cobham), born in Detroit Michigan
1956 – Kim Cattrall, British Canadian actress (Mannequin, Sex and the City), born in Liverpool, England
1978 – Jason Marquis, American baseball pitcher, born in Manhasset, NY

More Famous Birthdays »

Famous Deaths

1245 – Alexander of Hales, English Scholastic philosopher at Paris, founder of the Franciscan theological school, dies
1888 – Simon Vissering, Dutch economist (Minister of Finance 1879-81), dies at 70
1994 – Anita Lizana, Chilean tennis player (US Nat C’ships 1937; first Latin American major winner), dies at 78
2004 – Arthur Hockaday, British civil servant (Defence Ministry; Director-General of Commonwealth War Graves Commission. 1982-89), dies after a fall at 78
2020 – Mohamed Ben Rehaiem, Tunisian soccer midfielder (35 caps; CS Sfaxien), dies at 69

More Famous Deaths »